138 THE SCIENTIFIC ANGLER. 



Blue Bottle, or Beef Eater. Body, light blue floss 

 silk, ribbed over with black ostrich herl and silver twist, 

 tied on with brown silk; wings, from an old starling's 

 wing feather; legs, a black hackle. 



Wr -entail. Body, amber-colored floss silk, or ginger- 

 colored fur from a hare's neck, ribbed with gold twist; 

 legs and wings made buzz from a wren's tail feather. 



Red Ant. To be tied or dressed with orange-colored 

 silk, which may be shown at the tail; body, copper-colored 

 peacock's herl; legs, a red cock's hackle; wings, from a 

 redwing's feather. 



Black Ant. To be tied on or dressed with pale dull 

 fawn-colored silk, which may be shown at the tail; body, 

 black rabbit's fur, well mixed with copper-colored mo- 

 hair; legs, a dark furnace hackle. 



Black Gnat. Body, ostrich herl; wings, from a starl- 

 ing's wing feather; legs, a dark blue dun, or black 

 hackle. 



Gray Gnat. Body, gray mohair, or wool hackle, with 

 sea-swallow feather. 



Red Palmer, or Caterpillar. Body, copper-colored 

 peacock's herl, tied with brown silk, ribbed with gold 

 twist, a bright brown red-stained cock's hackle, having a 

 gold-color when held between the eye and the light. 



The Alexandra fly. Body, flat silver twist hackled 

 with bright feather of green or blue hue, from the neck 

 of a peacock; wings (if any) from the turkey's wing. 



How to dress a simple Hackle: 



The first effort of the fly-making aspirant should be 

 expended upon the wingless artificials; of these there are 

 two kinds, the plain Hackle and the Palmer; the former 

 is the best to commence with, it being the easiest to 

 make; but before attempting to describe the method, we 

 would remind our readers that there is a vast distinction 

 between practical and verbal teachings. Observation in 



